TREATMENTS

What can be treated?

Any vein that bothers you cosmetically or has symptoms is treatable. This includes the legs, face and chest.

How are they treated?

There are a number of treatment options depending on the severity of your
problem:

A) Compression Therapy - This utilizes graduated medical compression stockings to increase the blood flow reducing swelling, pain and fatigue. Thesestockings are by prescription only and must be carefully measured to your leg to provide the correct compression. As a convenience, the office stocks a variety of styles and colors, and our staff have been certified to fit you.

B) Sclerotherapy - Considered the "Gold Standard", a solution is injected causing the vein to be absorbed by the body naturally. No anesthetic is required and patients resume their normal activities immediately.

C) NEW Foam Sclerotherapy - This treatment utilizes a special preparation of sclerosant to treat veins more effectively requiring fewer treatment sessions. If indicated it may also be used on larger veins that previously required surgery.

D) Ultrasound Guided Sclerotherapy - Using advanced ultrasound imaging, Dr. Kass uses a "venous map" to selectively treat the veins below the surface that were once only treatable by surgery.

E) Laser Therapy - Laser is utilized to coagulate the veins causing them to dissolve. Very useful for the treatment of facial spider veins, this method has been shown to be ineffective in the lower extremities since it cannot treat the underlying cause of the surface veins.

F) Ambulatory Phlebectomy - An office based minor surgical procedure to remove large varicose veins through pinhole punctures under local anesthesia. It does not usually require sutures, minimizing any scarring, and patients resume normal activities right away.

G) VNUS Closure and EVLT -  Dr. Kass had been featured on WCCO evening news about this new, revolutionary procedure to seal large veins that were once only treatable by surgery. Dr. Kass is one of a few physicians in the country to offer both technologies to his patient's, since he feels 'one size does not fit all'. Utilizing radio frequency or laser technology, these procedures are replacing the traumatic surgical vein stripping that once required surgery, anesthesia, considerable pain and extended recovery. Performed in-office with a local anesthetic, one can return to their normal lifestyle immediately.